Possible Clues:

• It's myself, together with the broken reed, that did not go straight like the stream
• Being malicious, the German newspaper leader wasn't straight
• The two of us, being Cockney, went to journalist and rambled on
• Wound in arm needed to be treated
• (Of river) snaked
• Wandered right into performance, following plan
• It's myself and the deer that strolled around
• It's myself with the crooked deer that didn't go straight
• Newsman's back, bloody perhaps after nasty wound
• Wandered aimlessly